Tuesday, December 4, 2018

Trump: I Am a Tariff Man

....I am a Tariff Man. When people or countries come in to raid the great wealth of our Nation, I want them to pay for the privilege of doing so. It will always be the best way to max out our economic power. We are right now taking in $billions in Tariffs. MAKE AMERICA RICH AGAIN

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── When people or countries come in to raid the great wealth of our Nation, I want them to pay for the privilege of doing so. ──

See, children? If you trade with foreigners, you're letting them raid the "wealth of our great nation"! You should realize that your wealth is not really 'yours' - it instead belongs to 'La Nación'. That's why our president is a nationalist. That's how it works.

I disagree a bit that he's your typical mercantilist. The man instead thinks he's instituting his own version of Juche.

I'm going to the mall today to "raid" some stores and buy some Christmas gifts for family. After that, I need to go to and "raid" the supermarket as I buy my weekly groceries. Watch for news of my "raids" to go viral, as those stores decry my having plundered them of merchandise in exchange for cash.

If he's a tariff man maybe he could get rid of the income tax then? If he's an environmentalist and a tariff man maybe he can use tariffs as leverage to get other countries not to pollute?

After all it is the ability to pollute, to harm the property of others and the commons (air and water) that give other nations (at least in part) a "comparative advantage".

Remember if we have a private property society pollution would be driven to zero or very close to it. It would not be allowable to foul the commons. All pollution would need to be contained on the private property of the polluter and since that is usually not practical and economically more costly than not polluting people would not pollute as a rule. Some may destroy the resale value of their property and spend vast sums on containment measures but as a rule cheaper alternatives such as reuse, sale of the waste to other industries, and simply avoiding it would prevail.